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by user5994461 3215 days ago
>>> All the "I can't say" responses will derail a lot of interviewers though.

Not so sure about that.

The majority of interviews in the HN bubbles is hours of technical questions and quizzes, where the interviewers will not ask a single question about your resume.

Outside of this bubble, the more mature interviewers, who did hundreds and hundreds of interviewers, are not moved by a "This is confidential... I could talk about -other thing- instead".